Volleyball, thought through. Analytic writing that values clear framing, careful reasoning, and fewer clichés—for people who want to think a little more deeply about the game.
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You Can Only Coach What You Understand
In college, I built a neural network to answer a question about Italian football.
Italian football has a reputation: score a goal, and the whole team drops into a defensive shell to protect the lead. The question I was after was whether th...
Where Winning Lives: Performance in Context
Over the past six months, we’ve built three interconnected models designed to answer progressively more granular questions about volleyball. Elo tells us team strength before the match starts. SWEEP shows us how advantage shifts across a se...
Where Winning Lives: The Weight of a Touch
Contacts, Calibration, and the Value Between the Lines
The analysis piece showed what CONTACT reveals about rallies. This one explains how it was built.
Where Winning Lives: What Actually Matters
Over the past few months, we’ve been building a model to answer a specific question: given everything happening right now in this rally, how likely is this team to win the next point?
That changes what we can do. It changes how we strategi...
Where Winning Lives: Building CONTACT
If you’ve read the CONTACT introduction, you know what we’re trying to build: a framework for understanding how every touch—not just the ones that end rallies—shifts the odds of winning.
You might have also noticed that we’ve been quiet fo...
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Former Division I women’s volleyball performance analyst with experience at the national team level. I’m interested in thoughtful analysis, good questions, and improving the way we talk about the game.
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